Google Privacy Audit: How much do they know about YOU?

in privacy •  7 years ago  (edited)

The other day, I showed you how to audit and review the 3rd party privacy settings for Facebook. It discussed how to disable apps, websites and plugins from accessing your personal info. If you didn't see it, visit with the link below and be sure to upvote and resteem. It's time to take your privacy seriously.

https://busy.org/@ashe-oro/facebook-privacy-audit-what-info-do-you-make-visible-to-3rd-party-apps-websites-and-plugins (please re-steem, privacy is important)

Today, it's Google's turn.

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1. Firstly, you can download all of your and see what Google stores on you. Might as well check it out.

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

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2. Next, check out all the apps that you've used "Sign in with Google".

https://myaccount.google.com/permissions?pli=1

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3. Check on the way that Google personalized Ads for you.

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

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4. Review your search activity and history from Google. Yeah, get ready for this....

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

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5. Check out where you've traveled and how Google tracks your movement and location...pretty wild, eh?

https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?pb

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Ok, once you've done that...lemme know! You should feel more in control and safer once you at least have an IDEA of what Google stores on you.

Also remember that Steem is an open blockchain that permanently stores data. Google and Facebook SAY that they let you delete your information...and maybe they do or don't. Content on Steem is stored in the Blockchain FOREVER. Remember that.

In Liberty,
Ashe

PS: If you think privacy is important, please re-steem this post.

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Just did all this steps and i was scared how much information google has about me :/ This in the wrong hands could cause a lot of problems @ashe-oro

yeah, srsly. Nice job doing ur Google audit. Find it helpful?

Yes, very helpfull. I put your post in my favorite tabs so i don't forget to do it again in the future. Now, i'm going to do audit and review of the 3rd party privacy settings for Facebook :)

bam. You pay attention, don't ya?

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The Google spy's us legally. Well you shared a useful info.

Thanks for this post sir, it's really informative.
And will resteem it for sure, because privacy is important.
Have a nice day sir.

When are going to have a decentralized email service on a Blockchain, is that even possible?

great questions. Build it for us!!

thanks alot for the informativepost regarding privacy of google its really helpful their are many people who didnt know about their privacy and lost his persoanl and important data soo posts like this will seriously help them!

thank you. Glad you found it helpful.

Google knows every thing a person who enters in his range..great to read @ashe-oro

you are really doing great for a community 👍👍. such a great informative post personally i don't have much knowledge about google privacy it helps a lot. thank you so much

You said right and now it's time to take the Privacy seriously and in my opinion most of the people never think about the permissions they ask from us before using service and apps and we move forward ignoring the permissions and we don't know how this privacy data used or stored and we just believing the words and brands but that's not the case. In my opinion to break our blind beliefs Facebook's recent issue is an great example. Thanks for sharing this informative post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂

you are very welcome. I'm trying to help my community take privacy seriously.

Yes, that's great and this is really important aspect, and also it's need of the time.

thanks. information is important to everyone. many people today are only able to operate an app, call it follow-up, do not understand it in-depth about the application. with information like this will help.

Very interesting and helpful for us, thanks for sharing ashe_oro

thanks for helping us @ashe-oro and showing the way that how to keep secure yourself, thanks a lot

Wow what an information!
Upvoted!

Stealing your information, man they have wronged people big time. We should not leave the privacy unchecked. Personal information is of the greatest concern. Anyways thanks for sharing this information.

Thanks for the information sir.

A must read for everybody. Unfortunately one who need to read it the most are not even on steemit.